WI: british victory in the First Boer War (1880-1881)

why were Indians not allowed to walk on public footpaths in Natal if there was no racial separation in Natal?
Are we sure they weren't? I ask because the Wikipedia entry might be assumed on first sight to refer to Natal:
he was kicked into a gutter for daring to walk near a house, in another instance thrown off a train at Pietermaritzburg after refusing to leave the first-class.[58][59]... Indians were not allowed to walk on public footpaths in South Africa. Gandhi was kicked by a police officer out of the footpath onto the street without warning.[62]
However, when you follow through footnotes 59 and 62 you find they both reference Gandhi's time in Pretoria, capital of the Transvaal, rather than Natal.
 
Aside from a possibly different racial policy, what could have happened to SA?
What about the economy?
How will a british victory in the war affect the scramble for Africa? This question's the one i am most intrigued about.
 
Aside from a possibly different racial policy, what could have happened to SA?
What about the economy?
How will a british victory in the war affect the scramble for Africa? This question's the one i am most intrigued about.
It's possible Portugal and the Brits conflict sooner, and the Brits likely grab more land.
 
Would we see South Africa in any recognizable form?
In the long term, things will obviously get unrecognizable. One guess is that further broken Boer prestige could lead to an alternate 1948 election where the National Party loses, resulting in migration and racial policy being different (thanks to ReagentAH for coming up with that point).
 
In all honesty as a white south african who has researched into this. Nothing it would be a speed bump, the white south africans would likely be larger, due to no Second War. However there wouldnt be a migration to Namibia, as it was physically impossible, and was attempted once or twice, leading to the deaths of those involved in the northern Kalahari. And to any involved in the 1st Boer War we were basically proto-Nazis, the treaty that ended the war stipulated that our republics had to abolish slavery, this was after the Brazilians, OTL. This isnt to say that the british were saints, by no stretch of the imagination were they saints but definitely the actions of the south africans was questionable at best.
 
Also the National Party winning or not more has roots ultimately in the fact that the South African party had no clear stance on apartheid, which is why they lost and continued to lose in the later half of the 20th century.
 

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And to any involved in the 1st Boer War we were basically proto-Nazis, the treaty that ended the war stipulated that our republics had to abolish slavery, this was after the Brazilians, OTL.

Actually- the Brazilians held onto it until 1888.
 
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